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Unmanned Slim spacecraft responds to signal from Earth after touching down at awkward angle in JanuaryJapan’s moon lander has responded to a signal from Earth, suggesting it survived the two-week lunar night, the country’s space agency has said.The unm…
Read MoreJapan has become the fifth country to put a spacecraft on the moon after its Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (Slim) made a successful landing on Friday. Hitoshi Kuninaka, the head of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, said: ‘We are also abl…
Read MoreOn 2 September, the Vikram lander and Pragyan rover were put into ‘sleep mode’ to protect their electrical components during the brutal two-week nightHopes are fading for the “re-awakening” of India’s moon lander after Indian scientists were unable to …
Read MoreIsro, the Indian space agency, has released footage of the Chandrayaan-3 lander Vikram completing a hop experiment, shortly after the spacecraft made a historic landing on the moon’s south poleIndia’s south pole moon landing is big business for global …
Read MoreThe success of Chandrayaan-3 goes well beyond providing images from the moon’s south pole“I let out an involuntary whoop when it landed,” my friend Shivansh told me. He was travelling on London Underground at the time. “Everyone on the tube was staring…
Read MoreSolar-powered vehicle will spend two weeks roaming lunar surface to help scientists understand geology of moonIndia’s Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft has rolled its rover on to the moon’s surface after its successful landing at the lunar south pole.The Indian…
Read MoreIndia has raised its spacefaring profile and will now be seen as low-cost provider for missions possibleFor all the risks, for all that was riding on a successful landing, the descent to the moon’s surface was remarkably uneventful, if not exactly stre…
Read MoreVikram lander touches down at lunar south pole shortly after 6pm India time India has become the first country to successfully land a spacecraft near the south pole of the moon, in a historic moment that drew cheers at watching parties around the count…
Read MoreIndia has become the first country to successfully land a spacecraft near the south pole of the moon, in a moment that drew cheers at parties around the country. Chandrayaan-3, which means ‘mooncraft’ in Sanskrit, put down its Vikram lander shortly aft…
Read MoreIndia’s space agency launched a rocket on Friday that will attempt to land a spacecraft at the lunar south pole, an unprecedented feat that would advance the country’s position as a significant space power. Television footage showed the Indian Space Re…
Read MoreChandrayaan-3 launches from island in southern India in follow-up to failed effort four years agoAn Indian spacecraft has blazed its way towards the far side of the moon in a follow-up mission to its failed effort nearly four years ago to land a rover …
Read MoreHakuto-R may have miscalculated altitude, says company after losing contact with spacecraftJapan’s ispace said its attempt to make the first private moon landing had failed after losing contact with its Hakuto-R Mission 1 (M1) lander when it unexpected…
Read MoreStargazers will be able to see longest partial eclipse visible from New Zealand since 1212New Zealanders looking to the sky on Friday night will be treated to an incredibly rare lunar spectacle, not seen in their sky in more than 800 years.The longest …
Read MoreYusaku Maezawa, an online fashion tycoon, needs to fill eight spare seats on the lunar spaceship being developed by SpaceXIt’s the sort of chance that comes along just once in a blue moon: a Japanese billionaire is throwing open a private lunar expedit…
Read MoreThe unmanned Chang’e-5 spacecraft has landed on the moon to pick up lunar rock samples, something not attempted since the 1970sChina has successfully landed a probe on the moon. There, the unmanned Chang’e-5 will prepare to collect the first lunar samp…
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